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Toto Wolff has admitted that he has set next month's Belgian Grand Prix as the deadline by which time a decision will be made on the team's 2022 line-up.
Lewis Hamilton has revealed that a Friday morning session in the Mercedes simulator played a part in his 'pole' winning qualifying lap at Silverstone.
Failing to make it into Q2 for the fifth time this season, Yuki Tsunoda lays the blame at a late call to the weighbridge and traffic.
Missing out on pole by just 0.075s, Max Verstappen said he was unable to put together a perfect lap due to his car feeling "weird".
We managed to make it into Q3 with both cars, Lando and Daniel drove very well and we're very happy with the positions.
Overall, the pace was strong from both cars and that's reassuring given that we've had a tough time in recent qualifying sessions.
There is quite a complex set of parameters for the teams to take into account with no previous experience to fall back on, this is why many teams ran all three compounds in FP1.
It will be interesting to see what happens with the new sprint format and how much progress we are able to make in that race.
What matters most now is converting today's results into as good a performance as possible in tomorrow's Sprint Race Qualifying, so as to optimise our chances of scoring solid points in Sunday's feature race.
Our race pace has been stronger than our single lap's so far, and if we can make up some places in tomorrow's Sprint, we can be in a good position to mount a challenge for the points on Sunday.
It's been a tough day for us. We haven't been able to show the performance we expected or had demonstrated at previous races.